Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

Ya think?

 

30º this morning. Ash and Spruce gasifying.

 

33° and doing a test burn with hardwood Hot Bricks. So far, these are not bad. Clean burn, very little ash. Cordwood prices have risen here this year, and these make a viable alternative to buying any green wood if'n I run short this winter. Very little seasoned wood left to be found.

 

22 right now,had a handful of coals with mostly ashes left from last night.Lit it off again with a pile of walnut noodles,old doug fir lumber scrap,small splits of Silver Maple & more of that wormy Black Cherry scrap from the mill....

 

25 degrees, the greedy hungry monster is burning a mix of beech, ash and red oak. Only loaded about 1/3 full last nite and still throwing heat.

 

36 currently...a stick of white oak..and some sycamore..71 currently in the living room

 

Just reloaded after a 7-hr. burn....of a stove full of coals! Surprisingly, it held 68 in here despite 28* high and 15 mph gusty wind (woods to the north and west cut that down some.) Still burning little oddball chunks of some good wood, Oak and what-not. Almost ready to break into the bigger chunk stash....6-8" fatboys. After that I'll be caught up on the "scraps" and start in on regular splits.

So that's an old BK non-cat, or what?

 

Yup. Old school.

I ran it pretty hard last night and got 14 hours out of it. Got a hedge round the size of a watermelon lined up for tonight. Gonna be chilly. Wind chill is 16 right now and it feels every bit of it outside.

Saturday AM should be cold up in the deer stand...white stuff predicted for the weekend.

 

Tossed a few splits in...

 

That's how to pack a stove for an overnight burn! Looks like you couldn't add a toothpick in there.

 

So, old school as in pre-EPA? No wonder you got lots of Hedge in the stacks...for overnight burns. Any plans to get a new, miserly stove at some point? That must be some long-dead Hedge; Just sawed and still yellow, but big checks in those rounds.

 

Down to 22 Deg. on the back porch this morning. Chilly out there when I stepped out on the porch to let the muttleys out. Ash, Pine, and some Maple going in the boiler.

 

It was 28 degrees outside and 67 degrees inside when I loaded the stove last night at 9:30 and it is 24 degrees outside and 72 degrees inside right now. That wasn't even a full load of wood in the stove and it can still make it another hour or two before reloading. The new insulation in the attic is making a HUGE difference!! This a huge change from last year and I am loving it!

 

Hey chvymn99, I can't remember if I have seen what your stove looks like. C.R.S. Kicks in sometimes. Can you post a picture from a little ways away sometime so I can take a look?

So the other day when we were ........ Ummm what was I thinking about again?

 

11hours later. A couple coals kicking around in there. Stove top at 600.

 

67 in the living room and 3 outside this morning. The answer had a really healthy bed of coals so I tetris'd in a mess of uglies/shorts/ends and let her take off. By the time I left (and shut down the air) it was up to 74 in the hallway and climbing, which is good since the wife is working from home today. Forgot to take a pic of the stove but I stopped and grabbed this one on my way to work. I love to see the wisp of condensate/smoke coming out of that pipe instead of the smaller one right behind it!

 

Price on the stove is hard to justify when wood is free and I like processing it.

 

Reloaded at 18:00. 22 hour burn. Pretty not bad.